Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallon smashing

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The result was redirect‎ to List of Internet challenges#Crime. Owen× ☎ 16:03, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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While this probably seemed like an interesting topic at the time, it seems to explicitly fail WP:SUSTAINED (cf. also WP:10YT) as the coverage happened in 2013 with very little after that. Therefore, in hindsight the fad seems short-lived and confined to that time period with little impact (WP:IMPACT) beyond that. An alternative way to proceed could be a broader article about criminal "challenges/pranks" directed against grocery stores/food places, as gallon smashing seems closely related to ice cream licking [1] etc. Geschichte (talk) 07:54, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Crime, Internet, and United States of America. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:45, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Already has a well-sourced entry at List of internet challenges, which goes into more than enough detail. All sources cited (and all sources I can find outside social media) are from 2013, making this a textbook failure of WP:10YT. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per GNG (disclaimer: page creator). I take the opposite position as above. I think there's sufficient secondary coverage about this trend and the page is an appropriate fork from List of Internet challenges. The list merely defines "gallon smashing" without providing any additional context about the trend's history or impact. I'd prefer to see this entry expanded, not merged or deleted. I've added additional in-depth coverage by Bloomberg News, ABC News, CBS News, etc, and I've shared more refs on the talk page. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:01, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• "the trend's history or impact". What impact? Geschichte (talk) 14:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Charges filed, arrests, injuries, etc. Many trends don't result in these things. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:53, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to List of internet challenges. I looked at the titles of the sources and thought that an Internet challenge still getting media coverage eleven years after the fact might indeed merit its own article, but then I checked the sources. The articles listed as being from 2024 are actually from the mid-teens, merely archived in 2024. Possible mislead but also possible NBD. Given that, the entry in "List of Internet challenges" seems sufficient to me. Would reconsider if there is in fact analysis of this challenge from 2020 or later. Darkfrog24 (talk) 21:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.